Well then, one would expect him to be more open minded and a little less sensitive to being questioned. He seems quite capable of defending his own assertions. No need for you to circle the wagons but since you have, perhaps you have some evidence that supports his assertions, other than, "Well Mike says."?
I'll go read your link and get back to this post
So I've read that link. Here is what I take away from it that seems most significant to me:
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I'll throw my 2 cents in here and assure everyone it will be worth every penny. 
Which seems to suggest he is either having a bad day or his patience with the "common folk" is no longer what it once was.
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Long story short on rolling......the pellets that were classified by rolling were not actually the size graduations that I thought. I tested them in their respective group sizes....and always seemed to find a particular group that shot the best. I have no real explanation for that. So he has demonstrated for himself that rolling pellets works. He just never has figured out why, apparently. He goes on to say that anecdotal evidence convinced him otherwise. He got beat by someone that he believed was not sorting pellets (more on that below). He also states he does not know what property of pellets, rolling measures.
Then he tells us the method he uses to sort pellets.
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Right now.....I buy a tin of every batch of a particular pellet I can find. I shoot a few cards with each one indoors. If I find a great shooting tin, I order all I can of that particular lot. That is the extent of my sorting these days. So sorting doesn't work, except when it works? Apparently he has found two sorting methods which work. On the one hand he can't figure out why the method works (rolling) on the other hand he has not yet come to understand (even though he names it) the method he uses is still sorting.
There are any number of ways to SELECT pellets which shoot better than OTHER pellets. His method is to buy pellets which shoot better in his rifle. He just doesn't realize he is actually SELECTING pellets after all.
Anyone who shoots will tell you there are pellets their rifle "prefers". The same is obviously true about any mechanical system. One man sorts his pellets by buying certain lot numbers and does not realize he is sorting pellets. Then he asserts that the other fellow who sorts pellets is wasting his time.
Like I said, making rifles teaches one about making rifles. In this particular instance, I see a man who is relying more upon his intuition than upon his facts. That's not a character flaw, not an insult, and not a question about his skill.
